Little PegAtheneum, 1990 - 250 pages Peg O'Crerieh is a wife, mother, creative writing teacher, and sometime resident of the Everview Residential Treatment Center, which she is once again preparing to leave. Awaiting Peg at home are her devoted family, the normal pressures of daily life, and, most important, the students in her Nontraditional English class, where the assignment is always to write about Peg.As Peg struggles to find her place in the outside world, she finds herself drawn into her students' stories. Usurping their material, revising their facts, Peg inches slowly toward the truth until she is eventually able to confront the tragedy that sent her to Everview -- and which she may, at last, be able to leave behind. By turns brilliantly comic and painfully sad, Little Peg is a portrait of a singular woman, and of a life illuminated and transformed by the restorative powers a gifted writer. |
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... hear it ? " " The poem ? " asks Francis . " Great , " I say . " Certain ? " " Sure . " Francis and I lean against the door . We can hear Rickee rattle some papers , scrape a chair across the Little Peg 7.
... hear it ? " " The poem ? " asks Francis . " Great , " I say . " Certain ? " " Sure . " Francis and I lean against the door . We can hear Rickee rattle some papers , scrape a chair across the Little Peg 7.
Page 51
... hear her heart , which sounds like mine . A samba . When Francis is so much like me I could have made her up . I'm ... hear behind him and the Peg I hear there in the jungle at 92.2 FM ? I wake up but I don't have to open my eyes because ...
... hear her heart , which sounds like mine . A samba . When Francis is so much like me I could have made her up . I'm ... hear behind him and the Peg I hear there in the jungle at 92.2 FM ? I wake up but I don't have to open my eyes because ...
Page 203
... hear her sighing . This doesn't make any sense , but that reminded me of how my dad would hold his pocket watch in his left palm and rock the stem back and forth between his thumb and the very tip of the index finger of his right hand ...
... hear her sighing . This doesn't make any sense , but that reminded me of how my dad would hold his pocket watch in his left palm and rock the stem back and forth between his thumb and the very tip of the index finger of his right hand ...
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